Littlefield Unified School District
| Littlefield Unified School District No. 9 | |
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| 3490 E. Rio Virgin Road Beaver Dam, AZ 86432 |
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| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1910 |
| Superintendent | Mrs. Lael Calton |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
| Littlefield School | |
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| Location | |
| 1 Main Street. Littlefield, AZ 86432-0670 |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1910 |
| Principal | Dr. John P. Broberg |
| Enrollment | 132 |
| Information | (928) 347-5796 (928) 347-5795 Fax |
| Mascot | Eagles |
Littlefield Unified School District is a PK-12 grade school district headquartered in Beaver Dam, Arizona.
Littlefield Unified's District covers a large geographical area in Mohave County, located in the extreme Northwest corner of the State. The School District serves the unincorporated towns of Beaver Dam, Littlefield, Desert Springs and Scenic, Arizona, including Arvada and Fairview. It has a population of roughly 340 students throughout elementary, junior high and high school. Mount Trumbull and the re-built schoolhouse is part of the School District.
The history of Littlefield Unified School District #9 dates back to the early 1900s when a few families in the farming communities of Littlefield and Beaver Dam were holding school in their homes. An adobe building was constructed several hundred feet above the Virgin River in Littlefield and formal education commenced there sometime around 1910.
The 1926-27 school year exhibited a tremendous group of students attending at the one room school in Littlefield. The attendance/grade book is dominated by a few family names: McKnight, Leavitt, Peterson and Reber. The average daily attendance was 13 students.
Not much changed for the next 60 years within the district. Dessie Reber, the school’s only teacher for many years, demonstrates fluctuating enrollment through the 1960s and 1970s in her grade books (anywhere between 5 and 15 students in the entire district). The same prominent community names existed on the rolls during this time with the addition of a few move-ins, such as the Harris and Jones families. Almost all of these family names reside in the area to this day.
There were years during the late 1970s and early 1980s where only one or two students were enrolled at the school. Growth began to occur in the district during the latter part of the 1980s. The one-room school house soon had several modular buildings dotting the perimeter of the property. By 1992 enrollment at the school approached 100 students.
Throughout the 20th century, all students attending the Littlefield School were taught up until 5th or 8th grade. Students then proceeded to Virgin Valley High School in Mesquite, Nevada, where they were able to participate in programs and graduate from an accredited institution. A Certificate of Educational Convenience (CEC) was approved by the County Superintendent authorizing the district to use Arizona funds for tuition of students attending Virgin Valley High School. In the 1991-92 school year, Littlefield Middle School was established, and students in grades 6-8 no longer traveled to Mesquite for further education.
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